MARS Solutions Group is looking for an experienced Business Analyst for a client located in Milwaukee, WI (Hybrid). Our client is a well-known and highly respected insurance financial organization seeking bright, tech-savvy talent.

Summary Dig deep into a specific business area and help define the details of how to drive business results through technology. Work on a cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, designers and subject matter experts in an agile methodology to deliver on outcomes.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities Business Expertise:

• Provide deep expertise in at least one business area or domain with a broad understanding of business and domains surrounding the main focus.
• Articulate this knowledge as an authority at the department level.
• May be called on to provide insight at the enterprise level to provide detailed analysis.
• Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Independently assess and document current state across multiple processes, business areas and domains while consulting and mentoring other Business Analysts. Think strategically in understanding business drivers to define "target state" solutions.
• Gather Requirements: Lead requirement gathering for larger efforts and across multiple business domains or from other business analysts.
• Author User Stories and/or Features: Author user stories and/or features independently with medium to high complexity and sometimes across multiple teams. Act as an authority throughout the development process as required.
• Test Plan Reviews: Support solution delivery by coordinating and facilitating the business test planning and test execution by authoring, participating in, and ensuring business sign-off of testing processes for medium and large efforts.
• Leadership: Work independently and may coordinate work for others and/or provide mentorship.
• Project Management: Use advanced project management skills to lead, complete and advance work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree. 4-5 Years Prior Experience demonstrating business analysis.
• Knowledge and abilities to position themselves as the communications authority and go to resource for key information and decisions making.
• Domain expertise via previous internships or similar roles in the past.
• Certifications demonstrating proficiency in role specific competencies.
• Deep familiarity of agile & scrum development environments.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

Skills-Proficiency Level:

Adobe Analytics - Intermediate Atlassian JIRA - Intermediate Business Analysis - Intermediate Business Cases - Basic Continuous Improvement (CI) - Basic Gap Assessments - Advanced Industry Benchmarking - Intermediate Microsoft Power BI - Intermediate Process Mapping - Intermediate Product Demonstrations - Intermediate Requirements Gathering - Advanced Structured Query Language (SQL) - Intermediate Storytelling - Basic Test Planning - Advanced User Research - Intermediate Wireframing - Intermediate.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

• Agile - Business Analyst
• Agile Product Owner
• Attention to detail, organized, agile, eager to learn, strong sense of ownership

Nice To Have

• Ability to create strategic solutions that support business and technical needs
• Excellent communication skills focused on facilitation of meetings; ability to deliver informative, well-organized documentation and presentations and ability to effectively communicate in difficult and sensitive situations